The probably with listening to indie-rock-punk-garage-pop for the last 30 years as I have is that when you hear cool new music, your ears & brain will tell you that you've heard it before. Which is OK! Bring cool old sounds to new audiences. Music players have been doing that for years. Heck, Guitar Hero has brought 70s classic rock like Nugent, Foghat, Aerosmith and others to a whole new slew of 13 yr old boys (God help us all...). The key thing I try to look for is finding the right twist on a previously made sound to make [...]
Today we managed to hunt down one of the member's of the Halifax band Dog Day, Seth Smith. We managed to convince him to answer our questions on his favorite releases of this past year. The quartet released their album titled Night Group in 2007, and have been touring on and off since. You can catch them at the North Street Church in Halifax on December 28th. The band did a listening session here in Vancouver last year for CBC Radio 3, you can check it out below Raised on Indie: [...]

After last week, if my name were Mike and/or Michael, I'd be running out to buy myself a sleep mask. After seeing Michael Scott rock one on Thursday, and then seeing Mike O'Neill rock out while rocking one on Friday, I think it's pretty clear that all the Mike's are doing it! Well perhaps not all, but some. Or two. Anyway, the Ack and I braved a rainy Friday night to check out a fine Gus' Pub lineup consisting of Hamilton's Cam Malcolm and The Owls , Halifax's [...]
"I threw up writing it, and Trent threw up reading it, and the guy who made the copies of it -- he threw up while he was making the copies of it. It's so sick." -- Glenn Danzig on the vomit-inducing adaptation of his The Flesh Devours comic "I think I could really do a lot for that crappy town." -- Glenn Danzig, catching the Newbridge political fever "No, Doyle's not a teacher. It would be someone who's actually qualified." -- Glenn Danzig, dismissing Tom's assumption that [...]